Article
Human endothelial cells are defective in diabetic vascular disease.
The Journal of surgical research - 1 Dec 1994
Sank A, Wei D, Reid J, Ertl D, Nimni M, Weaver F, Yellin A, Tuan T L
Abstract excerpt
Diabetic vascular disease is characterized pathologically by endothelial cell (EC) hyperplasia and basement membrane (BM) thickening. One key question regarding the pathogenesis of diabetic vascular disease is whether the EC or BM or both are primarily defective and responsible for these patholog...
Topics
- Basement Membrane
- Blotting, Northern
- Cell Adhesion
- Cell Division
- Cells, Cultured
- Collagen
- DNA
- Diabetes Mellitus, Type 1
- Diabetic Angiopathies
- Endothelium, Vascular
- Extracellular Matrix
- Female
